I've ran out of ideas

Arne Wörner arne_woerner at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 22 22:45:31 GMT 2004


> > Of course. But why does iostat report 1.3MB/s on a
> > completely idle system? Is something eating my disk I/O? If so, how
> > do I find out what, precisely, is?
> 
Hmm... Since there should not be so much I/O on an idle system, I would like to
ask:
Did you use
- iostat
or
- iostat 2
or so?

If I use "iostat" I just see the average. If I use "iostat 2" I see first the
average and then the iostat of the last 2 seconds:
> iostat 2
      tty             ad0              ad1              da0             cpu
 tin tout  KB/t tps  MB/s   KB/t tps  MB/s   KB/t tps  MB/s  us ni sy in id
   2 4342 28.04   1  0.04  36.95   4  0.15   0.01   0  0.00  18 73  6  2  0
  12  115  0.00   0  0.00  44.67   7  0.33   0.00   0  0.00  20 74  3  3  0
   5   32 16.00   2  0.04  41.26   8  0.31   0.00   0  0.00  21 71  5  3  0
   0   38  7.00   1  0.01  50.00   7  0.37   0.00   0  0.00  24 69  5  2  0
^C


-Arne



		
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